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July 7, 1995 (111 Stone Ave. Monroe: 10: First United Methodist Church: First United Methodist Church: June 12, 2001 (101 N. 2nd St. West Monroe: 11: Isaiah Garrett Law Office
The Gannett owned News Star is the primary daily newspaper serving Monroe and area. Monroe is served by two African-American-owned weekly newspapers: the Monroe Free Press and the Monroe Dispatch. The Free Press was founded in 1969 by Roosevelt Wright, Jr., and The Dispatch was founded in 1975 by Irma and Frank Detiege.
Monroe: Ouachita: 92001566 Whitney Plantation Historic District: November 24, 1992: Wallace: St. John the Baptist: Site of a slavery museum, opened to the public in December 2014. French colonial main house dates from 1803. 88000977 Wildwood Plantation House: June 30, 1988: Jackson: East Feliciana: 98000702 Woodland Plantation: June 18, 1998 ...
Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) co-founder of the Black Panther Party, born in Monroe; James A. Noe, short-term governor of Louisiana in 1936; founder of WNOE and KNOE radio and TV stations; Abe E. Pierce III (1934–2021), mayor of Monroe 1996–2000, first African American in the position; Ouachita Parish educator
In 2014, according to the Brewers Association, Louisiana ranked 36th (out of 51 including Washington, D.C.) in the number of craft breweries per capita with 15. [ 2 ] For context, at the end of 2013 there were 2,822 breweries in the United States, including 2,768 craft breweries subdivided into 1,237 brewpubs , 1,412 microbreweries and 119 ...
Evelyn Blackmon, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 15 from 1984 to 1988 [7] Donnie Copeland, former West Monroe Pentecostal assistant pastor and Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, 2015 to 2017 [8] Clarence Faulk, publisher, broadcaster, businessman in Ruston, born in West Monroe in 1909
The property was sold to William A. Bright by Melinda T. Layton. Bright owned The H.C. & A. Railroad before selling it to Jay Gould and settling down in Monroe, Louisiana where he built the Queen Anne house on Jackson Street for $7,000 ($235,146.92 in 2023 based on an average inflation rate of 2.68%).
The Monroe metropolitan area, officially the Monroe metropolitan statistical area, is a metropolitan statistical area in Northern Louisiana that covers three parishes—Ouachita, Union, and Morehouse. According to the 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 207,104.